ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2007
The UCLan community engagement and service user support (Comensus) project: valuing authenticity, making space for emergence.
Article in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Consumers' and health providers' views and perceptions of partnering to improve health services design, delivery and evaluation: a co-produced qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- A theoretical systematic review of patient involvement in health and social care education.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2023Pooled it
- ACTIVE involvement in alcohol care: a community case study in coproduction.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A qualitative study of patients' and caregivers' perspectives on educating healthcare providers.Canadian medical education journal · 2021Article
- Community Engagement in a complex intervention to improve access to primary mental health care for hard-to-reach groups.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo develop and evaluate service user, carer and community involvement in health and social care education.
backgroundDespite the high policy profile of involvement issues, there appear to be no published accounts of schemes that have used a systematic whole-faculty approach to community engagement in health and social care higher education. FOCUS OF THIS PAPER: The set up and early development of a faculty-wide community engagement project. SETTING AND
participantsStaff from the faculty of health in one University, local service users and carers and community group project workers and local National Health Service (NHS) and public sector staff.
designParticipatory action research including document review, field notes, questionnaires and interviews. ANALYSIS: Thematic analysis. The emerging themes were tested by seeking disconfirming data, and through verification with stake-holders.
resultsPrior to the study, there were examples of community engagement in the participating faculty, but they occurred in specific departments, and scored low on the 'ladder of involvement'. Some previous attempts at engagement were perceived to have failed, resulting in resistance from staff and the community. Despite this, an advisory group was successfully formed, and project framing and development evolved with all stake-holders over the subsequent year. The four themes identified in this phase were: building accessibility; being 'proper' service users/carers;moving from suspicion to trust: mutually respectful partnerships as a basis for sustainable change; and responses to challenge and emergence.
conclusionsSuccessful and sustainable engagement requires authenticity. Many problems and solutions arising from authentic engagement are emergent, and potentially challenging to organizations.
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